Police respond to 2nd delivery driver robbery at Taunton Woods in less than a week

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Aug 4, 2014 at 5:18 PMAug 4, 2014 at 5:40 PM

Marc Larocque Enterprise Staff Writer @Enterprise_Marc

TAUNTON — A woman working for Papa Gino’s as a delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint in Taunton, according to police.

The armed robbery was reported in the Taunton Woods apartment complex at 840 County St. on Friday night.

Taunton police said the victim told investigators she was at the C building in the complex at 10:38 p.m., when a man let her into the building then followed her up to the second floor, flashed a handgun and robbed her.

“He approached her and told her to give him everything she has,” a Taunton police report said. “He then pulled a gun from his pocket. (The victim) gave him the money that she had.”

The perpetrator, who has not yet been arrested, was described as a thin, dark-skinned black man in his early 20s who is about 6 feet tall. The witness said he had “a very deep voice,” scruff on this chin, brown eyes and black hair. He wore a gray hoodie, dark blue jeans and black shoes, she said.

Police said the female delivery driver, who worked for the nearby Papa Gino’s at 65 Taunton Depot Drive, fled the apartment building and returned to the pizza shop. Police said they determined the gun, based on her description, was a black semi-automatic handgun.

Taunton police said this is not the first delivery driver robbery of its kind for Papa Gino’s at the Taunton Woods apartment complex recently. On July 30, “a similar robbery took place at the same address and same building,” when another delivery driver was targeted, the police report said.

The Papa Gino’s location was also a repeat victim in a rash of armed robberies at the store itself earlier this year. In late January, two men were arrested for allegedly committing three armed robberies within a span of three weeks at the Papa Gino’s restaurant, located within a busy shopping center on Taunton Depot Drive.